小說/散文

Whereabouts
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20271428
作者：
Lahiri, Jhumpa
定價：
560
會員價：
$476
ISBN：
9781524711993
出版年份：
2021
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
Whereabouts 是作者 Jhumpa Lahiri 繼 The Lowland 五年後的作品，原本以義大利文完成，後又自己翻譯成英文出版。全書由一位不具名的敘述者在歐洲城市周遊，思考她的孤獨。
Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone.We follow her to the pool she frequents, and to the train station that leads to her mother, who is mired in her own solitude after her husband’s untimely death. Among those who appear on this woman’s path are colleagues with whom she feels ill at ease, casual acquaintances, and “him,” a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. Until one day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun’s vital heat, her perspective will abruptly change. This is the first novel Lahiri has written in Italian and translated into English. The reader will find the qualities that make Lahiri’s work so beloved: deep intelligence and feeling, richly textured physical and emotional landscapes, and a poetics of dislocation. But Whereabouts, brimming with the impulse to cross barriers, also signals a bold shift of style and sensibility. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement.
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